On Valentine's Day in 1970, the Who performed a ferociously raw set at the University Refectory, a 2,000 seat auditorium at the University of Leeds in West Yorkshire, UK. The concert was arranged expressly to record a live album that would dispel impressions the Tommy rock opera album created that the group was heading in an art rock direction. The intensely raw and hard rocking set delivered from the stage that night served notice and the album that followed 3 months later went on to become widely considered as the greatest concert recording ever made.

On February 14th, 1973, David Bowie was stretchered off the stage at Radio City Music Hall in New York after an overzealous fan rushed him on stage as he performed as Ziggy Stardust.

 

Other Noteworthy Classic Rock events on February 14 include...

1945 Vic Briggs of the Animals born.

1947 Tim Buckley born.

1968 Graham Nash & the Hollies do a free concert at the Whiskey in LA.

1972 Los Angeles celebrates Steppenwolf Day.

1973 David Bowie leaves Radio City Music Hall stage on a stretcher after a over zealous fan knocks him down during a Ziggy Stardust performance.

1977 B52s debut in Athens, Georgia.

1978 Dire Straits begin recording debut album.

1980 Lou Reed marries Cynthia Morales in his Greenwich Village apartment.

1980 Heart releases Be be Le Strange.

1980 Thin Lizzy's Phil Lynott marries Caroline Crowther.

1981 Billy Idol leaves Generation X to go solo.

1984 Joe Perry and Brad Whitford rejoin Aerosmith.

1986 Frank Zappa appears on an episode of Miami Vice.

1994 Grateful Dead’s Jerry Garcia marries film maker Deborah Koons in Sausalito, California. 

2014 About 30 fans get invited in to Paris rehearsal and get a 7 song set from the Rolling Stones.

2000 KISS announce a farewell tour.

2004 Judas Priest's Dave Holland draws an eight year sentence on indecent assault conviction.

2018 Eddie Money's Two Tickets To Paradise musical opens in Rochester, NY...